RCB Coach Hits Back At Trophy Criticism: 'Not The Responsibility Of...'

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Last Updated:May 26, 2025, 19:07 IST

RCB manager Malolan Rangarajan has deed backmost astatine concerns astir their deficiency of IPL titles and examination with the England shot team.

Royal Challengers Bengaluru are rubric contendors successful IPL 2025. (Picture credit: BCCI)

Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB)’s rotation bowling manager Malolan Rangarajan has deed backmost astatine the speech of the franchise not winning immoderate titles successful IPL past and comparisons with the oft-underperforming English men’s shot team. Rangarajan, speaking up of their past IPL 2025 radical crippled against Lucknow Super Giants (LSG), said RCB’s past wasn’t a load for the existent set-up, which was overmuch much balanced than the past.

Having already secured a playoff berth, RCB’s lucifer against LSG offers them a large accidental to unafraid a top-two decorativeness and play successful the archetypal Qualifier. A large triumph tin besides assistance them decorativeness astatine the pinnacle — lone their second-ever first-placed decorativeness successful the tournament’s history, which volition support them 2 wins distant from lifting the title.

“England had won the FIFA World Cup successful 1966, but yes it is existent that we person not won the IPL title," Rangarajan said. “And we are doing what we tin to guarantee we go a much accordant and amended team. If you look astatine the past 5 to six years, RCB has go a much accordant franchise. Whatever radical utilized to say, I don’t cognize if it is existent oregon not, but radical utilized to accidental that our batting was precise bully and bowling not truthful much," helium added.

“It feels similar we person a balanced team, which gives a small equilibrium to our output. So, our thinking, similar each the teams’, is to win. What happened successful the past is not the work of the existent players. It is the work of the existent players, which is determination contiguous and tomorrow’s match. So, if we win, it volition beryllium good, but I cognize everyone, I cognize each and each subordinate and everyone knows what their privation is and what they privation to do. So, determination is decidedly nary unit wherever we person not won, due to the fact that we deliberation however we privation to play," helium added.

‘Remember the quality’: Rangarajan connected Hazlewood’s return

RCB are coming disconnected a nonaccomplishment against Sunrisers Hyderabad, but person received a immense boost successful the signifier of pb pacer Josh Hazlewood returning from injury. However, alternatively of overtly celebrating it, Rangarajan enactment the absorption connected the remainder of the team, too.

“There is nary uncertainty astir however bully Josh Hazlewood is arsenic a subordinate and what large interaction helium has had for us, but it is besides important to retrieve successful his absence, we played 2 games, we won 1 and we mislaid another, Lungi Ngidi had filled successful precise good and we judge successful the spot of the full squad, determination is Nuwan Thushara who is chomping astatine the pits and adjacent radical hide that we person a precise talented Indian gait bowler successful Rasikh Salam, truthful portion we are precise blessed astir Hazlewood coming backmost to the squad, we and everybody needs to retrieve the prime that is existing wrong our playing squad," helium said.

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